Mini Nano Tanks???

[fallinmor]

listen i never said what i was doing was just but i was forced into it cuz i niether had the room or or safety for the fish in my display tank and my qt is occupied by my lion right now so i couldn't put 2 fish i had gotten(not by choice) from family into my display.
right now they will only be in there about a month b4 i move them into my 20 gallon at that time i will stop the small one gallon tank. in there now is a lb of lr and an 2 inches of crushed coral considering the dimensions of the one gallon there is 3/4 of a gallon left, and a friend of mine kept a half gallon with 11 hermits and snails and a royal gramma(i do not agree with the small tanks at all i was kinda forced itno it). but yes i can be done with small fish like a clown gobie or pistol shrimp and shrimp goby but it is kinda cruel to give them such a small place to live, i never said i enjoyed watching fish in sumthing like a beer mug.

 

[marco333]

Sandlot was asking if he could keep fish in a small nano and have long term success. He wasn't asking if he could throw a fish in a small nano for a month and move it later. Therefore you shouldn't have posted that you have 3 fish in a small tank, and its easy to keep, but forget to say that it isn't viable for the longrun.

 

[chipmaker]

I have a 2 gal Pico going for about 2 months or so now, and its doing fine.......loaded with shrooms, some leathers, lots of various polyps, pipe organ coral, 3 blue legged hermits about 1/2" long, 2 brittle stars about the side of a silver dollar, a couple of asterina stars, a cerith snail, 1 small Neon Goby. Use a typcial HOB nano filter, with LR rubble, as well as a live sand bed with 6 1/2-7 pounds of live Fiji rock and a moon light. Wtaer stays between 79 and 80.3 degrees, but I do have a fan in the hood which turns on when the PC fire up off a timer......I do a 2 quart a week water change and once a month do a 1 gal change..and all my water parameters are fine........I have seen picos as small as a 3" cube. I went the pico route to get my feet wet in SW, and am currently working on a 10 gal and in a month or two should have a 90 setup and started to cycle.......All my rock and sand etc came from an already established tank my LFS was taking down so I did not cycle anything but did wait 2 or 3 weeks before adding the neon goby. If yu can keep a pico a larger tank should be a walk in the park, as larger is a bit more forgiving. That old addage that says you can't fit a bushel in a peck, well that goes out the window when yu play with a pico, as you usually manage to find "just one more place" for a new additon somehow...I am not saying picos are meant to keep fish in, but I see no reason a small fish or two could not be kept, for awhile anyhow, but they soon grow so you need to have something in place so they can be relocated......I think I should be fine with the 10 gal a it will be ready long before the goby outgrows his domain, and then there is always going to be that 90 gal.